Katherine Dunn
Katherine Dunn
Katherine Karen Dunnwas an American best-selling novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon. She is best known for the novel Geek Love. She was also a prolific writer on boxing...
american-novelist explore giving haunted notion outside responsibility second source structure
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
american-novelist college high portland school suburb
But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.
iron parent sometimes
Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.
book thinking use
What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.
athlete training limits
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
feels courses
Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.
innocence forgetfulness stamina
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.
struggle survival tools
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
military soldier female
And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.
fighting men boys
Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.
thinking research fertile
I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.
reader storyteller
I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
men bravery selfless
Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
nice heartless pay
Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.